Year-Round
Pow-Wow
Planning
The Arlee Pow-wow will be a year-round affair for at least five tribal members.
The Tribal Council, last Friday, voted to advertise for applications to five volunteer positions on a new Arlee Powwow Planning Committee. Selections will be made from applications during the September 8 meeting of the Tribal Council.
The 1972 Arlee Pow-wow, which is still $1,596.89 in the hole, high-lighted a number of areas where planning could be improved. It was pointed out that ticket sales did not reflect the "packed house" conditions at the Pow-wow or the "standing-room-only" accomodations at the rodeo. The council felt that tighter restrictions on the gate and capital improvements to the fences would probably increase the revenue from the events.
Other suggestions to improve the event included: —An increase in the budget for improvements to the grounds (providing for sanitary facilities and concession stands) and the rodeo arena.
—The possibility of eliminating the charge to non-members at the Pow-wow gate, requiring a Recreational use permit instead. —The use of voluntary labor to offset the cost of some facits of improvement (members of the St. Ignatius district indicated they would devote their time to helping with the grounds). —Request additional help from the Kicking Horse Manpower Training Center.
A year-round planning committee would be something new on the Flathead reservation. However, other reservations, including Crow and Blackfoot, have been organizing their Pow-wows under full-time committees for a number of years.
Saws Silent On Largest Timber Cut
Dixon—Advertisement for bids on the Valley creek logging unit—the largest projected cut out in the history of the reservation—will be delayed for at least a couple more wppks.
The Tribal Council last Friday decided by a tie vote of four to four not to call for the bids pending the results of a study on the feasibility of a tribally owned
lumber mill. Voting against the measure to open the bids immediately were councilmen Tom Pablo, Hot Springs, Harold Mitchell Jr., and Tom "Bearhead" Swaney, St. Ignatius and John Malatare, Arlee. In resisting the motion to open the bidding (made by Poison Councilman E.W. "Bill" Morigeau) opponents pointed
out the tribe should be given first crack at the 81.3 million board feet of timber if they do decide to go into a integrated timber processing industry. Malatare said it would be bad business to sell the 16,000 acres of prime timber south of Dixon before the $15,000 study on the possibility of tribal purchase of the Pack (Continued on Fage 3)
Published By The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, Dixon, Montana 59831
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Council Votes To Distribute M.P. Settlement
Children's Money To Go In BIA Trust
Dixon—There wasn't much of problem deciding what to do
Councilmen Voted For People
A series of district meetings were held around the reservation during the month of Aug. to sound the feelings of the people about the $11,249,913.81 Kerr Dam payment. Although some councilmen
with the $11,249,913.81 Montana offered alternatives to total Power Judgment—100 percent distribution, there was an distribution—the only dispute overwhelming consensus that last Friday at the Tribal Council the money should be split among meeting was what to do with the the membership. The only children's money.
The Council, guided by the results of a series of district meetings (see story in next column), in a close vote decided
question remaining, then, was what to do with the children's money.
Councilman Tom Swaney
to pay-out the adult shares and calIed his st- Ignatius con-place minor's money in a stituents together on Aug. 3. Of Bureau of Indian Affairs trust tne 80 persons present, all but account. The money belonging to four favored 100 percent those under 18 years of age distribution with the children's would go into the same account shares g°ing to the parents, as the land settlement monies Swaney, in spite of his stated and earn the children about 6 personal feelings, voted at last percent annual interest. Friday's council meeting to The vote to distribute the make« a ful1 payout with monies with the trust provision children's shares going to the for children was four to three Parents, with three absences. Voting for polson Councilman Ew
(Continued on Next Page) "Bill" Morigeau held a meeting
Aug. 8. Some 90 persons attending at the Poison Community Center voted to per-capita out all the money and pay minor's shares to parents. Morigeau offered an unsuccessful motion to this effect at Friday's Tribal Council meeting. He then voted in opposition to a motion to withhold children's money in Bureau of Indian Affairs trust accounts.
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Dividends Are Paid
It's no news to those that have received it but a $100 income dividend was mailed to all tribal members Friday, Aug. 18.
The check, one of three annual income dividends budgeted by the Tribal Council, was sent to an enrollment 5,643.
The money is regarded as "recurrent income" and comes from normal sources of tribal revenue such as forestry, power leases and grazing contracts.